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Alfred Graham Foster was born in Carrieton, South Australia, on 13 June 1887 to William Henry Foster and Jane Foster, 12 years after the couple migrated from Ireland. The sixth of seven children, Foster was raised in Carrieton and found work as a photographer and electrician. He joined the AIF on 29 September 1914 at Morphettville, aged 27, as a private with No. 1 Australian Stationary Hospital (1 ASH).
Foster began training with 1 ASH in October at Adelaide Hospital and a temporary base hospital in Keswick. He and 1 ASH staff were instructed in first aid and anatomy, sanitation, general hospital and camp duties, and the transportation of patients on wagons and stretchers.
By late November Foster had completed his training and left for Melbourne, where he boarded SS Kyarra on 5 December. Following a trip marked by cramped and unhygienic conditions, Kyarra arrived in Alexandria on 13 January 1915. Foster spent the next six weeks in Egypt, where 1 ASH set up hospital camps in Maadi and Ismailia. Illness and sanitation were major concerns during this time, particularly the treatment and containment of measles.
In March, Foster and 1 ASH relocated to Lemnos Island.
Lemnos was to become a major staging and medical base for the Gallipoli campaign, with its central Mudros harbour located less than 100 kilometres from the peninsula. Through determined efforts, 1 ASH established a tent hospital equipped for 200 patients at East Mudros within days of arriving. However, over the following weeks, the limited staff struggled with inadequate water, sanitation and transportation. llnesses such as scarlet fever and mumps also spread among both patients and staff.
In mid-April 1 ASH was ordered to expand to 400 beds, in anticipation of the Gallipoli campaign. After the 25 April landing, casualties poured in for weeks. On 21 May the hospital's unit war diary reported that '271 patients arrived to be taken on without any notice'. Poor living and working conditions also continued. In July correspondence to the Deputy Director of Medical Services of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), the officer commanding 1 ASH explained that staff had to construct their own tent poles, use unclean vessels for water, and contend with serious lice infestations among patients. Despite this, the hospital was in fact ordered to expand further to prepare for the August offensive on Gallipoli. Just one day after the attack began, on 7 August, 1,130 patients overcrowded 1 ASH. Bryant recorded, 'Experiencing great difficulty in feeding … patients, as only have utensils for 700'. The hospital had immediately reached capacity, although managed to maintain accommodation for 1,000 cases. Slowly the wounded lessened in the coming months; however, beds became newly occupied by a flood of sick patients throughout September and October.
Following ten days sick in hospital in October, on 4 November 1915 Foster left Lemnos. He and 1 ASH were moving to the peninsula itself, anticipating significant casualties from the looming harsh winter. The hospital was established at North Beach, and soon received huge numbers of frostbite cases. Most were from Suvla, where in just ten days during early December, 4,243 trench foot and frostbite casualties and 204 deaths from exposure were reported by the MEF Director of Medical Services. Foster's service on Gallipoli culminated in assisting the December evacuations. For his efforts in the campaign he was Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette on 28 January 1916.
After departing Gallipoli in mid-December, Foster and 1 ASH proceeded to Ismailia to support the troops defending the Suez Canal. By the time of the Ottoman attack on the canal in April, the hospital had 400 beds and established a route of evacuation for patients to Cairo by ambulance train. Casualties were relatively minimal, until the second Ottoman advance in mid-July and the battle of Romani on 4–5 August. On 7 August, the Director of Medical Services for the Egyptian Expeditionary Force reported that 200 wounded Australian and British soldiers had entrained for 1 ASH and No. 24 Stationary Hospital in Moascar.
1 ASH left Ismailia in mid-August. The Director of Medical Services reported that '[t]he unit … has been highly appreciated for its good work in Egypt'. While most of 1 ASH went on to France, Foster remained in Egypt and spent three weeks with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Mustapha, a reception station conducting large-scale medical inspections on allied troops pending despatch. On 14 September 1916, he embarked for Britain on HMT Warilda.
In late September Foster arrived at the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) Training Depot at Parkhouse, an AIF camp in the village of Hampshire, before being sent on to No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital (3 AAH) in Dartford. 3 AAH was opened by 1 ASH as a subsidiary unit to receive cases further from the front. Foster arrived on 4 October, just days before the hospital was to open. 3 AAH staff initially struggled with the building and facilities: formerly the British Orchard Hospital for infectious diseases, they had been left in poor condition. However, they made considerable improvements, and by the end of October the hospital held 1,400 patients. After working for several months at Dartford, on 29 January 1917 Foster was promoted to sergeant.
Over the next year, Foster worked between 3 AAH and Parkhouse camp. Parkhouse was both a convalescent depot and a training centre, preparing large numbers of medical reinforcements for the front. Central to these reinforcements was the Field Ambulance, a mobile medical unit that worked on the battlefield. A month before Parkhouse and other associated training camps were established through England, General Neville Howse VC, AIF Director of Medical Services, stated:
all A.M.C. [Army Medical Corps] men in England are to be trained in Field Ambulance work and carry out a course of training in stretcher drill.
Later that year, such training became crucial for Foster. On 1 October 1917 he was transferred to join the Australian Army Medical Corps on the Western Front.
He arrived in Rouelles on 3 October, and within ten days was taken on strength as a stretcher-bearer with the 5th Australian Field Ambulance. Foster's initiation was severe – he had joined the unit in the final bloody stages of the battle of Passchendaele. By early October, troops had entered into a full-blown battle of attrition, while terrible rain left the trenches a quagmire. As a stretcher-bearer, Foster's duty was to administer first aid and carry wounded men from the front to medical posts situated towards the rear. It was one of the hardest, most unrelenting and dangerous battlefield roles. Relentless mud and inadequate duckboards impeded movement or sometimes stopped it altogether, and carries often took several hours. Bearers frequently worked continuous shifts of up to 48 hours, constantly exposed to heavy shell-fire and mustard gas attacks. Reflecting on the battle, Private Eric Fairey of the 38th Battalion wrote:
A word for the stretcher-bearers will not be out of place. It was quite a common occurrence for men to sink to their thighs and waists into the soft slimy mud, which drew one down, down, for ever downward like some live thing. To carry a wounded man from the front line … was a terrible undertaking. The distance to be covered was less than a thousand yards, but it took six men four, five, and even six hours to do the trip … The heroic deeds performed at Ypres and Passchendaele have never been excelled!
From mid-October, the 2nd Australian Division relieved the 5th near Broodseinde in a final push northeast towards Passchendaele ridge. Supporting the division, Foster and the 5th Field Ambulance worked alongside the 6th and 7th Field Ambulances to coordinate a westward line of evacuation for wounded.
This began by carrying casualties to Regimental Aid Posts located across the front, a carry generally completed by regimental stretcher-bearers. There, Field Ambulance stretcher-bearers collected and transported wounded to an Advanced Dressing Station (ADS) just east of Ypres. The ADS offered basic medical supplies but could be exposed to significant enemy fire. Casualties were therefore moved on to a Main Dressing Station (MDS) located further from the front near Brandhoek. Although the MDS provided some shelter, surgical equipment and a limited holding capacity, cases were sent further west to larger and safer facilities. Serious cases were transferred to Casualty Clearing Stations, and lighter cases to Divisional Rest Stations in the hope of returning to the front. Where possible, casualties would be taken direct to these later stages of the evacuation chain by car, wagon, or rail. When carried on foot, bearers could pause between stations at relay posts.
During Passchendaele's last days in early November, Foster boldly led a group of bearers out under intense fire to retrieve wounded just east of Ypres, at Bellewaarde Ridge. For these actions he was awarded the Military Medal. The citation read (in part):
On the night of 8 November, 1917, at Bellewaarde Ridge East of Ypres the road and surrounding area was heavily shelled. Sergeant Foster took his bearers to the spot at once and directed the removal of wounded. He remained in the shelled area and thoroughly searched for wounded. Only for the coolness of this Non-commissioned Officer wounded would have been eventually killed by the continuous shelling or not discovered till daybreak.
By 15 November, the devastated Australian troops handed over to the Canadians. Foster and the 5th Field Ambulance moved with the 2nd Australian Division towards Messines. On 15 December they relieved the 11th Field Ambulance at Underhill Farm, an ADS just south of Messines. Although the 2nd Australian Division suffered some cases of frostbite, trench fever, and scabies during this initial period, overall casualties were low – the division's Assistant Director of Medical Services reported that until 5 January 1918, the maximum number of casualties in one day was only 11.
At the end of January, the 5th Field Ambulance was relieved by the 11th and proceeded back to divisional headquarters at Nieppe. Foster then spent a week at the Australian Corps Gas School before returning in late February. He and his unit remained at an MDS in Pont-d'Achelles, outside Nieppe, in March. During the initial weeks, they rarely received more than ten cases in a day; however, by the end of the month casualties totalled 1,232 – the German Spring Offensive had begun.
In early April Foster and the 5th moved south towards Amiens. Following ten days at an MDS in Vadencourt, on 17 April they moved closer to the front near Albert, setting up an ADS at Franvillers. Supporting the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Australian Divisions until the end of the month, they treated over 200 casualties.
In May the unit moved to an MDS in Querrieu. Their station remained relatively quiet until the 2nd Division's attack at Morlancourt on 10 June – in just four days, they received over 500 wounded. After two weeks of rest during June, operations intensified again in August with the battle of Amiens.
Occupying an MDS near Villers-Bretonneux, the 5th Field Ambulance sat behind the 2nd Division's Green Line objective at Lamotte–Warfusée. The attack commenced early on 8 August, and within 24 hours the 5th had received 350 allied casualties, 240 of whom were Australians. The following day they received 929 casualties, including 512 Australians.
The 5th Field Ambulance next moved east along the Somme. On 29 August they established an ADS at Herbécourt. Given the task of devising the line of evacuation for the impending attack at Mont St Quentin, the unit positioned the 6th Field Ambulance at an MDS in Cappy, and the 7th Field Ambulance at a centre to treat gas casualties further west at Bray-sur-Somme. On 31 August the 2nd Division attacked. Evacuations worked efficiently; the division's Assistant Director of Medical Services reported, 'Casualties have been very promptly and adequately evacuated to M.D.S.'
After spending the next month around Frise, on 28 September 1918 Foster departed for two weeks' leave in Paris.
Not long after Foster returned to the front from leave, the Armistice was signed. On 22 November he was granted 75 days' leave with pay. In March this paid leave was extended until the end of August, accompanied by work and training with Mason Cinema Operating arranged by the Department of Repatriation and Demobilisation. Information about this company is limited, although Foster was perhaps trained as a projectionist due to his background as a photographer and electrician. On 1 November 1919 he finally returned to Australia aboard HJ Nestor, and on 27 December he was officially discharged from the AIF.
After re-settling in South Australia, Foster married Dorothy Cameron Reed at St Paul's Church in Adelaide on 9 April 1927. The couple remained together, though did not have children. Foster passed away on 18 December 1984 at Masonic Nursing Home in Somerton Park, South Australia. He was 97 years old.
Australian War Memorial, First World War Embarkation Rolls – Alfred Graham Foster
Australian War Memorial, Honours and Awards – Alfred Graham Foster
Australian War Memorial, Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-1918 War, AWM4 Subclass 26/70 - No 1 Australian Stationary Hospital
Australian War Memorial, Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-1918 War, AWM4 Subclass 26/3 - Director of Medical Services, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
Australian War Memorial, Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-1918 War, AWM4 Subclass 26/4 - Director of Medical Services, Egyptian Expeditionary Force
Australian War Memorial, Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-1918 War, AWM4 Subclass 26/19 - Assistant Director of Medical Services, 2nd Australian Division
Australian War Memorial, Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-1918 War, AWM4 Subclass 26/48 - 5th Australian Field Ambulance
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1 ASH unit diaries
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Thank you for your service.
I've heard about this and you were amazing. RIP.
Dear Alfred, I have read your inspiring story. How brave and kind you were to search for the dead who couldn't find themselves. Because of what you did, families could grieve.
Hello. Thank you for your service - Emma.
Hello. Thanks for fighting in World War 1.
Thank you for your service. I hope your sacrifice was acknowledged.
Thank you for your service to our country and was happy to hear you lived to the age of 97. RIP.
Thank you for protecting our country. You are the best.
Good on you for serving your country, and saving all those lives as an AIF soldier. You will not be forgotten.
Thank you. R.I.P
I wish that you came back, my friend. I'm 5 years old.
You had no idea of the horrors you would face once on those ships. By saving these wounded soldiers you brought honour to yourself. Lest we forget.
Thank you for your service.
Good job on the military medal. You have shown great bravery. Your parents and mates would be proud of you.
Thank you.
Hope your mates were there for you.
Thank you for your contribution in the war.
Abbey STEPHEN
Thank you for putting your lives at stake so we can be free. I know it was scary but you just fought anyway. Lest we forget.
Thank you for putting your lives at stake so we can be free, although it was scary you fought anyway. Lest we forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for being such a good person and for saving so many lives.
jenny grigg
Thank you for your committment and bravery xxx
Hi Foster, today I have learnt a lot about you. I found that you had to work really hard. You are a star.
Thank you for giving us world peace.
Jonty Downey
You are a very brave doctor, Alfred.
Your courage will always be acknowledged, forever grateful.
Hello Alfred, I think you have done a great job.
Thank you for what you did in war.
Thank you for playing a huge role in a lot of people's lives. We will remember them.
Your excellent service to saving lives. Thank you.
Thank you, you are very brave.
Thank you for your courage and strength.
Thank you for your stories. I loved it.
Thank you for all your efforts.
To Foster, I hope you believed in God, from Skye.
To Daddy I love you, love from Skye.
Merry Christmas.
Hettie and Bradley
It has been an honour to learn about such a courageous person.
We thank you for your service.
j0rdan peat
john 0419432801
Grandson of ALBERT NORMAN ROBERTSON also in 5th Field Ambulance in same places. Also survived. Thank you for your service.


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Israel is standing as much as he can. It's funny how babies reach this age where
sitting just isn't enough any more. It's also funny what they'll use to prop
themselves up with. We received a large envelope in the mail and Israel tried
to use it to stand up with!? Silly baby. I hope he doesn't walk too soon, I'm just
not ready for that madness but I guess it's totally up to him.
He's still irresistibly cute, walking or not!
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I´m waiiting to receive my RAR chair in white!!
SO SO CUTE!!! I actually think it's much better when they are walking around... at first your like... where the heck are they!!? But then it does get better because they seem to entertaint them selves more... hopefully with nothing dangerous!! :D Good luck.. looks like you are having lots of fun with Israel.. gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
Yes, he is irresistibly cute! My little doesn't walk, he runs all the time and yes, life changes dramatically when they start to walk(in my case run:-)). XXReplyDelete
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as much as i can't wait for my little guy to start sitting let alone walking, i think i'm going to enjoy his stationary stage where he stays put exactly where i put him for the time being.
have a great wkend.
Ooooh my! He is a cuteness! I love his beautiful name.ReplyDelete
Little Israel is becoming a big boy now! Enjoy his first walk, such a special moment!ReplyDelete
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Part 1 - Succession and Career Planning…..Important Even in a Double-Dip Recession!
By Valerie Mercer SPHR, Director of HR/Career Services Click here to listen...Has your organization ever promoted an employee to fill an unplanned opening, only to have them fail?
Does your organization have a plan in place for developing and retaining your key people?
During this economic downturn, when organizations have been focused on keeping their businesses afloat, development plans for individuals have taken a back seat. However, many employers today realize that, even with the poor economy, the top-performing and/or high-potential employees can be flight risks – some want to leave and some are being targeted by competitors! And companies recognize that these top performers often determine the long term success or failure of a business – certainly a catch 22.
While these top performers and high potentials may have been content to hunker down during the start of this downturn, many are becoming restless, and even disgruntled, and will jump when the time is right. Lack of opportunity for advancement is often one of the top 4 areas of discontentment in employee engagement surveys! And, statistically, while voluntary separations have trended downward, voluntary separations for top performers have trended up!
Only 20% of organizations have formal, transparent, succession planning systems in place! A talent management system that identifies, develops and (hopefully) retains top talent is key to managing top performers and high potentials. In the absence of a system, organizations fall prey to the cycle of "threaten to quit = offer of more $$ to stay" (a short term fix, if it works at all!). A succession/career planning system is much more effective and actually creates a proactive management system, as opposed to a reaction mechanism! This approach can be complex and expensive or as simple as having regular, structured (more than 1X per year) performance/developmental discussions with key employees, and tracking the results. But this may be a challenge since many companies do not even have a successful performance review system in place!!
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The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School left the quiet community of Newtown, Conn., desperately trying to understand what happened. NBC's Kate Snow reports.
Updated at 7:17 p.m. ET: The first that some pupils heard of the mass shootings Friday at their Connecticut elementary school was when gunshots and screams started coming over the intercom system, according to accounts from the scene.
Twenty children, all ages 5 to 10, and six adults were killed when a masked gunman opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., authorities said. The gunman was later found dead, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News.
26 dead after gunman assaults Connecticut elementary school
Connecticut school shooting is second worst in US history
The brother of a little girl who made it out of the school safely told NBC 30 of Connecticut that his sister told him that her class knew something was wrong "when she heard screams — screams were coming over the intercom and the school went on lockdown."
NBCConnecticut: Newtown massacre: 28 dead
As the children were being led out of the school, state troopers and FBI agents told them to "hold hands and close their eyes until they got outside," said the unidentified young man, "so obviously what was in there must have been very gruesome."
"It truly is disgusting. It's sickening," he said. "Unfortunately, it's a growing trend in the United States."
The Rev. Al Sharpton talks with Kathy Sweeney, whose 8-year-old grandson was at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.
"It was just horrific, and I just found out that a neighbor ... lost a child," said Kathy Sweeney, whose 8-year-old grandson attends the school.
The boy is doing OK, she told MSNBC, but "I don't think it has set in yet."
Sweeney said her grandson told her that he and his classmates were in a computer room when they were told to duck under their computers.
"The PA system was on, and he said that he heard the gunshots," she said. "And then he said that they were supposed to close their eyes and they made their way up to the firehouse up the street."
See more video on the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary on NBCNews.com
Another pupil said everyone "went into a total panic" when they started hearing the gunshots.
"I was going back to my classroom," the boy said. "Then I heard something like a person was kicking on a door. Then I turned around and I saw smoke. ... Then a teacher pulled me into her room."
Asked what his reaction was amid the chaos, the boy said simply, "Whoa."
"You can never be prepared for this kind of incident," an emotional Gov. Dan Malloy said, his voice shaking as he recounted the assault on "a number of our citizens, beautiful children, as well as the adults whose responsibility is to educate those children."
Newtown police Lt. George Sinko called the shootings "definitely the worst thing we have experienced in this town," telling reporters it took officers just minutes after they arrived to recognize "what a horrific scene we had there."
The father of a pupil at Sandy Hook Elementary School describes his feelings upon hearing about the shootings. Then, Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shootings, reacts to the interview, saying, "We are better than this."
'A powerless and terrifying experience'
The father of a Sandy Hook pupil said he had "no words that I could come up with that could come close to describing the sheer terror of hearing that your son is in a place, or your child is in a place, where there's been violence."
"You don't know the details of that violence. You don't know the condition of your child, and you can't do anything immediately to help them or protect them," he said.
"That is a powerless and terrifying experience."
Sarah W. Caron found a scene of chaos when she arrived to look for her young son. Teachers, police and parents, some of them crying, handed out water and tried to restore some order, she wrote on iVillage.
"The moment I spotted Will's little brown haired head was one of such great relief. I hugged him. I hugged his teacher," Caron wrote. "But this isn't over. My family is safe — thank God — but our school community was shattered today by a horrific tragedy."
A staging area for parents to reunite with their children was set up at the neighboring firehouse.
An elementary school pupil recalls the terrifying moments following sounds of shots at her Connecticut school, saying, "Teachers told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled."
"I was in the gym, and I heard, like, seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in a corner, and we all huddled, and I kept hearing these booming noises," a young girl said.
"We all started — well, we didn't scream — we all started crying, so all the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us," the girl said.
"So then a police officer came in and told us to run outside, so we did, and we came in the firehouse and waited for our parents."
"The children who witnessed this are terribly traumatized," said Msgr. Robert Weiss of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, who went to the firehouse to offer support and comfort. Weiss' church organized a memorial Mass for 7 p.m. ET.
"They're crying, they're trying to hold on to their parents, they want to go home, but they don't want to leave their friends," Weiss told MSNBC.
"Right now, I'm in a room full of parents who are waiting to hear what happened to their kids," he said. "The anxiety in this room is just overwhelming."
Andrew Mach and Vignesh Ramachandran of NBC News contributed to this report.
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Iowa Central to Enhance Learning with New Technology
by Belinda Rooney
Posted on 5/25/2012
Youngstown, OH – May 24, 2012 - Turning Technologies, the global leader in the assessment delivery and data collection industry, adds Iowa Central Community College to its list of institutions to standardize support around the company's student response solutions. After the completion of a four-month evaluation pilot, Iowa Central Community College has selected the ResponseCard® RF LCD as the centrally supported clicker device. ResponseCard RF LCD provides students with visual response confirmation, channel setting and extended battery life.
In order to provide campus-wide autonomy to its student population of approximately 6,000, Iowa Central Community College has standardized on a reliable technology that can be supported and represented universally. The clickers will be used in a variety of courses with more than 1,500 students expected to adopt clickers in fall 2012. The institution's evaluation committee had several metrics in mind when piloting the clickers. Turning Technologies' product offered the ease-of-use, affordability and superior product support the committee required.
Jennifer Condon, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences said, "Students' success is correlated to their engagement in their learning and campus life. Turning Technologies provides that affordable, easy-to-use technology to engage students in both smaller and larger classes, even in workshops and special campus events. We can't wait to assess the impact with the campus-wide implementation this fall."
"We are pleased to enter into a relationship with Iowa Central Community College. Since day one it has been our goal to improve and redefine the student approach to learning as well as the educator approach to teaching. Being able to provide this technology to the future students of Iowa Central is yet another step in creating improved learning gains to students and positively impacting student retention," said Tina Rooks, Ed.D., Turning Technologies' VP & Chief Instructional Officer.
Turning Technologies readily elicits customer feedback, and takes it into consideration during the development process, creating assessment delivery and data collection solutions specifically designed with users in mind. The company remains the industry leader in higher education with more U.S. colleges and universities using Turning Technologies' clicker solutions. Additional growth is expected in 2012, predominately during the fall semester with ongoing pilots and standardizations.
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Turning Technologies creates leading assessment delivery and data collection solutions for learning environments. Founded in 2002, the company began with the development of response technology that was affordable, user-friendly and better documented so that users could easily grasp its benefits. Today, more than four million ResponseCard clickers have been delivered to K-12 schools, universities and businesses worldwide. Turning has expanded its portfolio of products to include data collection systems that securely transfer digital data for various assessment, testing and certification programs. Based in Youngstown, OH, information on Turning Technologies' solutions can be found at www.TurningTechnologies.com.


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Toyota Verso-R has been enhanced with a midlife redesign to furnish a smaller with no discount car for S-MPV part drivers. Keeping in accordance with Toyota's 'Sharp Look' configuration of clear, expressive and eager styling, Verso-R's entrance face has been moved as much as replicate this with one other assured aspect stance. Captivating headlights emphasizing projector innovation and LED daytime operating lights are presently commonplace on all evaluations. An up-enterprise really feel is achieved by a just lately revived higher flame broil upgraded by its chrome bezel embody.
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Canon PowerShot A480 First Thoughts
As the 19th century drew to a close, photography was the province of professionals like William Henry Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan. The large, unwieldy, and slow tripod-mounted glass plate cameras of the day were expensive and developing/printing pictures was complex, time consuming, and messy. The introduction of George Eastman's boxy little Kodak "Brownie" roll film camera in 1888 changed all that. The "Brownie" was inexpensive, simple to use, didn't have to be mounted on a tripod, and was, for it's day, very compact.
My last two test cameras were the Canon "A" series flagship (the A2100 IS) and Canon's lowest cost "A" series model, the Powershot A480. What was most interesting about the two cameras was not their differences, but their similarities. Canon is the most modular of the major camera makers and their product development folks have a broad catalog of proven components (zoom lenses, LCD screens, processors, etc.) to draw from when creating new models. The A480 is a very good example of just how well this modular design philosophy works.
The A2100 IS and the A480 share loads of nifty features, almost identical operation, and both have the ability to produce excellent images with little effort on the part of the shooter. The bargain priced A480 may be the 21st century equivalent of the "Brownie" box camera, but this digicam for the masses is much smaller, much faster, substantially more capable, exponentially more powerful, and much simpler to use than it's illustrious ancestor.
The A480 (which replaces the A470) is easily pocketable (twenty-five percent smaller than its predecessor), features 10 megapixel resolution, a 3.3x (37-122mm equivalent) optical zoom, a 2.5 inch LCD, the same AiAF 9 point Auto Focus system with advanced face/motion detection technology found in more expensive Canon digicams, a DIGIC III processor (the A2100 IS features the new DIGIC IV), and comes in four colors – silver, red, blue or black.
After a week of carrying the A480 with me pretty much all the time (and everywhere I go), I'm impressed. There really isn't anything new here, but there isn't anything to complain about, either – the A480 is fairly basic, but it seems to be a competent and dependable digital picture maker. The A480 does more than any camera in its class – and it does it very well for about a hundred and thirty bucks.
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These are numbers that are remarkable, although none is mindblowing. Those are very rare, although a single viral video can get over 4 million perspectives. Having 8 million eyeballs find personalized marketing for the Fiesta ain't shabby whatsoever. Interest is certainly indicated by all these numbers.
The destiny of the effort rests on these individuals and whether they may be willing to dish out a five-digit amount to buy a Fiesta.
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The Day of the Dead is a celebration of life. It's a day for families and friends to gather together and honor those who have shared the path of life and who have gone on before them. For some, it's a chance to reminisce and tell stories, sometimes with a sense of humor and sometimes with a tear for someone special.
This holiday, celebrated on November 1st is observed the most in Latin and Central American countries, but is also experienced in parts of the United States and Europe as well. It is lovingly celebrated in Mexico where scholars trace its origins back to Aztec festivals. Similar to its Catholic counterpart "All Souls' Day," it gives the living another chance to share their love for those who have passed on. In Mexico, private altars are built so that prayers can be said for the good of the deceased. Favorite foods and beverages are also shared and gifts of marigolds and sugar skulls are left at the graveside. Sugar skullsmay be given to members of the family or offered to the dead out of respect. This gesture is an effort to share sweetness and the light of life.
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Power outages and a disallowed goal left the Houston Dynamo wondering what might have been at the end of the 2009 season, and with a decidedly bad taste in their mouths provided by the Los Angeles Galaxy.
But the Dynamo get another go-round this weekend, looking to take the first cathartic step to moving past last year's Western Conference finals where things turned so dark so quickly.
"We have that bitter taste from last year, but it's a new year and we have to take care of business at home," Dynamo midfielder Geoff Cameron said. "Hopefully we can use some of that anger for our loss last year [and focus it] for revenge this year."
For the Dynamo to be exact some revenge, the team will have to find a way to slow down Landon Donovan, the catalyst for the Galaxy attack.
"I don't think you can find a weakness in his game," Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear said. "He has everything for me. He sees the game better than most, he's incredibly quick, fast, great balance, can strike the ball well with both feet, a great finisher and great passer of the ball. I find it odd that people always try to poke holes in the way he's played and prepared himself over the years when all he's done is been the best player this country has ever seen."
The Dynamo players believe to be successful they will have to play more to their strengths than focusing in on Donovan or his teammates.
"I don't know if you ever slow down Landon," said Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad. "He's certainly the best player in our league. That's not what you key on. You try to play to our strengths, to the things that make us successful, pressuring the ball and making things difficult for them to play."
Houston failed to score in three outings against the Galaxy in 2009, a trend the team is looking to change in a pivotal early season showdown.
"I will give credit last year, [Galaxy 'keeper Donovan] Ricketts pulled off one or two excellent games, so hopefully he will have a bad day," Kinnear said. "It's easier said than done, but if we get our two forwards combining and playing well together, Dominic [Oduro]'s pace gives most defenses problems and with Luis [Ángel Landín] getting more confident and healthy, it can be very beneficial to us."
A regular-season win against the Galaxy won't exorcise all the team's demons from 2009, but it will definitely put the team on the right path to where it wants to be in 2010.
"It's early in the season, third game, and we are just trying to build for this season and get on a good run," noted defender Ryan Cochrane. "The goal is to get to the MLS Cup final, so I wouldn't say it's a revenge game, but it's definitely one we want to win."
Forward Cam Weaver likely won't be match fit and might not be available off the bench on Saturday. Defender Andrew Hainault broke his hand last week, but should still be available for selection despite the injury. Eddie Robinson should also be available as he was not listed on the injury report this week.


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3rd Ba** was one of a still-small number of white hip-hop artists to achieve wide acceptance in the larger community. Along with the Beastie Boys, 3rd Ba** proved that white hip-hop wasn't necessarily going to become a watered-down, commercially exploitative rip-off of the genuine article, as so many white interpretations of black musical forms had been in the past. Instead, they were possessed of a well-developed lyrical technique and were respectfully well-versed in hip-hop culture and tradition. They helped set the tone for the way white rappers could credibly and intelligently approach the music, and despite staying together for only two albums, they managed to create a highly positive lasting impact.br /br /3rd Ba** was formed by Queens-born MC Serch (born Michael Berrin) and Brooklyn-native Prime Minister Pete Nice (born Pete Nash), along with African-American DJ Richie Rich (born Richard Lawson). Nice had been an English major at Columbia University and hosted a short-lived hip-hop show on radio station WKCR. Serch, meanwhile, had honed his sk**s battle-rapping at clubs and block parties and had previously released a solo single called "Hey Boy" on the small independent Idlers label. Both Serch and Nice were working as solo acts until producer Sam Sever convinced the two 20 year olds to join forces in 1987. Along with Prince Paul and the Bomb Squad, Sever produced their 1989 Def Jam debut, The Cactus Album (aka Cee/D), which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews in most quarters. Clever, good-humored singles like "The Gas Face," "Steppin' to the A.M.," and "Brooklyn-Queens" helped make 3rd Ba**'s name in the hip-hop underground. They followed it in 1991 with Derelicts of Dialect, which featured one of the first recorded appearances by Nas and contained a viciously funny jab at Vanilla Ice called "Pop Goes the Weasel." Accompanied by an equally humorous video, "Pop Goes the Weasel" became 3rd Ba**'s biggest chart single and performed some much-needed damage control in the hip-hop community: not only did it prevent 3rd Ba** from getting lumped in with Ice, but by extension, it also distanced at least some of the Caucasian race from the whole phenomenon, opening doors for greater inclusiveness later on.br /br /Despite their success, 3rd Ba** disbanded in 1992 when MC Serch went solo. He issued Return of the Product later that year, and the remainder of the group, billed as Prime Minister Pete Nice & DJ Daddy Rich, teamed up for Dust to Dust in 1993. Neither was as successful or high-profile as the two gold-selling 3rd Ba** albums. Serch, interested in discovering new talent, became the head of A&R at the respected, now-defunct Wild Pitch label, and later founded his own label, Serchlight Productions. Nice, meanwhile, dropped out of the music business and opened a store in Cooperstown, NY, that sold baseball memorabilia. In 2000, 3rd Ba** reunited for several concerts. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide


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In a recent post on the iMedicalApps blog, Dr. Satish Mira discusses the iPhone app Virtual Cath Lab. As of today there are 2 versions available, one for free and the other for $2.99. This app is "a c-arm simulator and anatomical viewer designed to teach all medical staff and students hand-to-eye co-ordination skills and anatomical positioning concepts in a radiation free environment." In addition to describing this app's functionality and strengths — such as reduced radiation exposure — Dr. Mira puts forward an interesting idea:
Though the actual data seems to be conflicting, one statement I often heard was that my generation and those to come would be better prepared to learn these interventions simply because more of our time was spent playing video games.
Strangely enough, the argument went, many of the same skills to be good at Mario Kart or Call of Duty were important in manipulating laproscopic surgical instruments. In an odd way, what is being said is that visual-spatial thinking, hand-eye coordination, and other similar skills are becoming increasingly critical with minimally invasive interventions that require the operator to convert 2D images on a screen into 3D anatomy – a skill that means the difference between removing a gall bladder properly verse perforating the bowel. Virtual Cath Lab is a free app that is great example of how medical education can use new training modalities to prepare trainees for this shift.
It will be interesting to see if research will eventually support this idea, or if it will remain conflicted.
If you are or have been a medical student and have had to use training simulators that use a 2D image to represent a 3D space, how hard did you find it to make the mental translation?


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The Cannes Festival (French: Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is considered the most prestigious film festival in the world and is one of the most publicised, The invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
The 2015 Cannes Film Festival took place between 13–24 May 2015. American film directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen were the joint Presidents of the Jury. Dheepan, the film directed by French director Jacques Audiard, won the Palme d'Or.
On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival. The Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival.
Carol and The Lobster had all the "buzz", but Jacques Audiard's powerful drama Dheepan came away with the top prize. Is this the most surprising Cannes yet?
When it was announced that the Coen brothers would be chairing the main competition jury at Cannes this year, festival-goers and film critics alike wondered if a little mischief was in store.
But the audience and members of the media at the Palmarès awards ceremony on Sunday night were largely baffled when the Coens' jury awarded the Palme d'Or, the most prestigious prize in world cinema, to Dheepan, a relatively low-profile crime drama about a family of Tamil immigrants living in Paris by the French director Jacques Audiard.
This is the third time Audiard has had a film in contention for the honour. The others were the eccentric, killer-whale-training melodrama Rust & Bone, in 2012, and the prison thriller A Prophet, which won the Grand Prix, Cannes' prize for second place, in 2009.
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The award came as a shock not because Audiard's film had been particularly badly received, but because it had failed to generate much "buzz" – that unquantifiable airborne charge at Cannes that gets cinephiles excitedly chattering in queues, barging though crowds to get to catch-up screenings, and feuding over a film's perceived merits or otherwise over the evening's second bottle of rosé.
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The three films that had dominated conversation on the Croisette were The Assassin, a lyrical martial-arts drama from Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Todd Haynes's Carol, a lesbian romance starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara; and Son of Saul, a blistering Holocaust drama from the first-time Hungarian director László Nemes.
In the end, all three of those films were rewarded elsewhere: Hou won best director, Rooney Mara shared the best actress prize with Emmanuelle Bercot, who played a lovesick lawyer in Maïwenn's romantic melodrama Mon Roi, and Son of Saul was a popular choice for the Grand Prix.
Perhaps Dheepan's buzz was unfairly stifled: it screened to a thinned-out and bleary crowd at 8.30am on the day after the 1am premiere of Gaspar Noé's sexually explicit 3D film Love, which was – until critics saw it, at least – the hottest ticket in town.
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But the Coens' jury, which also included the actor Jake Gyllenhaal, the actresses Sienna Miller, Sophie Marceau and Rossy de Palma, the directors Guillermo del Toro and Xavier Dolan, and the singer Rokia Traoré, would have seen it with rather fresher pairs of eyes.
From a film critic's point of view, these awards were mostly exasperating, and not only because my predictions were, once again, a seven-for-seven clean sweep of bad calls. The benefits a film like The Assassin will glean from a top-level endorsement from a Cannes jury are enormous: last year's Palme d'Or winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, was a three-and-a-quarter-hours-long breezeblock of Chekhovian introspection, and yet the award was enough to earn it a reasonable cinema release in the UK.
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Hou's film, which leaves (the perfectly good) Winter Sleep in its dust in every respect, is among the very best films I have ever seen at Cannes, and one of the most purely beautiful I have ever seen anywhere – but its pace is so meditative, and its storyline so opaque, that potential distributors might think twice before taking it on. (Audiard's films, being a) fast-moving and b) from France, as opposed to somewhere farther-flung, don't come up against this problem.) Hopefully the director's prize, coupled with its avalanche of critical praise, will be enough to allow it to take an honest run at the arthouse circuit.
Carol seems destined for bigger things when the Oscars and Baftas roll around, so its lack of a Palme d'Or won't pose much of a problem – and there is a certain, counterintuitive and very Coen-esque brilliance in singling out Mara, as opposed to her far better-known co-star Blanchett, for particular praise.
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And I should add that I was particularly pleased to see her share the prize with Bercot, who is very differently excellent in Mon Roi, a far looser, ragged-edged and intensely French melodrama, and a film whose heart-on-sleeve emotions became a fashionable target for sneers.
In fact, this was a great year for France overall: the Palme d'Or, a shared Best Actress prize, and also Best Actor, which went to the lugubrious Vincent Lindon for his widely acclaimed performance in the socially-aware recession drama The Measure of a Man from Stéphane Brizé.
Of course, it could be argued that by front-loading the programme with five French films (the next most widely-represented country was the USA, with arguably four "American" films in competition, the niceties of their various financing structures aside), the home team was unlikely to leave empty-handed.
There was some good news for the UK and Ireland too: The Lobster, a surreal black comedy starring Colin Farrell as a divorcé trying to survive in a bizarre processing plant for singletons, was given the Jury Prize, the festival's bronze medal. The film was co-written by its Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos, but his cruel and despairing sense of humour translates well to English.
Perhaps because of the Coens' own fondness for the macabre, bookies had The Lobster as the 5/2 favourite to win the Palme d'Or, with Dheepan a relatively distant 12/1 outsider. But once again, Cannes has retained the element of surprise.
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The magic of an African safari is something no family can fully prepare for. Everyone's experience is different, loaded with spontaneous cultural and wildlife encounters that couldn't possibly have been written into an itinerary – that's what makes a safari in Tanzania remarkable.
A prime example is the unplanned wildlife rescue mission undertaken by the Hartz family on their recent Tanzania Active Safari for Families with Teens. Jennifer, Eric, and their four teens were riding along in their safari vehicle, wildlife viewing in the Eastern Serengeti Ecosystem, in the private nature refuge that Thomson guests have exclusive privileges to visit. Suddenly, they spotted a Kori Bustard (a large, mostly ground-dwelling bird) hobbling along with something sticking out of its back.
They followed the bird in their rover, hoping to help in any way they could. Upon closer inspection, the Hartz family and their driver realized that the poor thing had been struck between the shoulder blades by a Maasai arrow. Hunting on this property is strictly prohibited, but somebody had attempted to make an illegal dinner out of this Kori Bustard. The family, along with their guide and driver, removed the arrow as carefully as possible, applied Neosporin to the wound, and patched it up to the best of their ability. Afterwards, they sat back and watched as the bird went on its way, concerned but gratified in the knowledge that they probably just saved its life.
That uplifting tale of chance and compassion is exactly the type of thing that makes a safari such a special family adventure. In addition to saving an unfortunate Kori Bustard, the Hartz family had plenty of other wonderful experiences… a bike ride into a village quarry near Gibb's Farm where bricks are hand-made by local workers, and a rewarding encounter with friendly and enthusiastic Maasai children, to name a couple. But this unexpected act of kindness and teamwork is something that will surely stick out as a particularly fond travel memory!


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Editor's Note: This story was originally published in October and has been republished with updates in the wake of the shooting Sunday in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Barely a month after the massacre in Las Vegas, another horrific attack has underscored the persistence of gun violence in the United States. At least 26 people are dead after the shooting this Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
If the mounting death toll has you thinking that attacks like this seem to be more frequent in the United States than in other rich nations, you're right. Statistics on the rates of gun violence unrelated to conflict underscore just how outsize U.S. rates of gun deaths are compared with those in much of the rest of the world.
Take countries with the top indicators of socioeconomic success — income per person and average education level, for instance. The United States ranks ninth in the world among them, bested only by the likes of Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Iceland, Andorra, Canada and Finland.
Those countries all also enjoy low rates of gun violence, but the U.S. has the 31st highest rate in the world: 3.85 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2016. That was eight times higher than the rate in Canada, which had 0.48 deaths per 100,000 people — and 27 times higher than the one in Denmark, which had 0.14 deaths per 100,000.
The numbers come from a massive database maintained by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which tracks lives lost in every country, in every year, by every possible cause of death. The figures for 2016 were released this fall. As in previous years, the data paint a fairly rosy picture for much of the world, with deaths due to gun violence rare even in many countries that are extremely poor — such as Bangladesh and Laos, which saw 0.16 deaths and 0.13 deaths respectively per 100,000 people.
Prosperous Asian countries such as Singapore and Japan boast the absolute lowest rates, though the United Kingdom and Germany are in almost as good shape.
"It is a little surprising that a country like ours should have this level of gun violence," says Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health and epidemiology at the IHME. "If you compare us to other well-off countries, we really stand out."
To be sure, there are quite a few countries where gun violence is a substantially larger problem than in the United States — particularly in Central America and the Caribbean. Mokdad says a major driver is the large presence of gangs and drug trafficking. "The gangs and drug traffickers fight amongst themselves to get more territory, and they fight the police," says Mokdad. And citizens who are not involved are often caught in the crossfire.
Mokdad said drug trafficking may also be a driving factor in two Asian countries that have unusually large rates of violent gun deaths for their region: the Philippines and Thailand.
With the casualties due to armed conflicts factored out, even in conflict-ridden regions such as the Middle East, the U.S. rate is worse than in all but one country: Iraq.
The U.S. gun violence death rate is also higher than nearly all countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including many that are among the world's poorest.
One more way to consider this data: The IHME also estimates what it would expect a country's rate of gun violence deaths to be based solely on its socioeconomic status. By that measure, the U.S. should only be seeing 0.79 deaths per 100,000 people — almost five times less than its actual rate of 3.85 deaths per 100,000.
Now, the prevalence of domestic violence in the U.S. is comparable to what you see in many wealthy European countries. What is not comparable is the rate of gun violence. NPR's Nurith Aizenman reports.
NURITH AIZENMAN, BYLINE: When it comes to the key measures of socioeconomic success, the U.S. consistently scores near the top. Chris Murray is director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
CHRIS MURRAY: Well, in terms of development, we're one of the most developed countries in the world, you know, one of the highest income, highest levels of education.
AIZENMAN: And on all those indicators combined, the U.S. ranks ninth, right up there with countries like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Canada. But those countries also all enjoy very low rates of death by gun violence. By contrast, in the U.S., nearly four people out of every 100,000 are killed with a firearm each year.
MURRAY: Twenty-seven times higher than what you see in Denmark, almost 10 times higher than what you see in Canada, so that's really quite extraordinary.
AIZENMAN: These statistics are from a giant database maintained by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that tracks every death every year in every country by every possible cause. The latest figures covering 2016 came out earlier this fall. We should note that the violent gun death rates do not include situations involving armed conflict or suicide. And Murray says even if you compare the U.S. picture on this to not just other wealthy countries but to all countries, the U.S. comes out pretty terribly.
MURRAY: The U.S. would be towards the bottom of all countries. They'd be in the bottom 30 of all, you know, 195 countries that we look at.
AIZENMAN: Some of the world's poorest nations have lower violent gun death rates than the U.S.
MURRAY: Many, if not most, countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
AIZENMAN: And veering towards South Asia, Bangladesh and Laos. Of course, there are countries that have far worse stats than the U.S., mainly in Central America and some parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.
MURRAY: They have rates that can be 10 times higher than the U.S.
AIZENMAN: Murray says drug trafficking and gang violence in those places is probably a major driver. So what's behind the outsized gun violence rates in the U.S.?
MURRAY: Well, you know, I think if you look at the data on number of guns per capita in the U.S., it's much higher than countries at the same level of development status.
AIZENMAN: And while the availability of guns here is not the only factor, he says it's certainly got to be part of the explanation. Nurith Aizenman, NPR News.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Scott Martin had a season-high 22 points on a career-high six 3-pointers and Jack Cooley added 19 points and 13 rebounds to lead No. 21 Notre Dame to a 93-74 victory over Seton Hall on Saturday, the 11th straight win for the Irish.
The winning streak is the second-longest for the Irish (13-1, 1-0 Big East) in 13 seasons under coach Mike Brey. The loss ended a seven-game winning streak for Seton Hall (12-3, 1-1).
Seton Hall, playing with only eight scholarship players available because of injuries, kept the game close until the Irish finished the first half on a 7-2 spurt, then opened the second half with a 16-4 run to move ahead 60-41.
Fuquan Edwin and Aaron Cosby had 21 points each for the Pirates and Gene Teague had 17 points and nine rebounds.
Eric Atkins added 17 points and 10 assists for the Irish.
The Irish, playing their first game in 15 days, struggled defensively at times as the Pirates drove inside for baskets, but finally got going late in the first half. The Irish opened a 35-25 lead with 3:40 left in the first half on a three-point play by Cooley to cap a 10-2 run. The Pirates quickly cut the lead to 37-34 with three baskets inside, including a fastbreak by Edwin, and a 3-pointer by Haralds Karlis. But a late run by the Irish opened the 44-36 halftime lead.
Martin started the second half with two quick 3-pointers sandwiched around a 15-foot jumper by Jerian Grant, who had 13 points. Another 3-pointer by Martin 3 minutes into the second half gave the Irish a 58-41 lead. Pat Connaughton then scored on a rebound of his own missed shot to make it 60-41. The Irish later stretched the lead to 66-43 with another 3 by Martin, who was 6 of 7 from 3-point range.
Seton Hall didn't get any closer the rest of the way and the Irish later extended the lead to 24 points.
With most Irish fans focused on Monday night's BCS title game between top-ranked Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama and students off campus for the holiday break, a crowd of only 8,523 showed as the Irish won for the 46th time in their last 47 home games.
Seton Hall backup center Kevin Johnson returned after missing two games after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery to repair a slightly torn meniscus, but played only 5 minutes.
The Irish will have a chance to match their longest winning streak under Brey when they play at No. 14 Cincinnati on Monday. The previous 12-game winning streak was during 2006-07.


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Gluten free butter pecan tart at Tula.
We looked around Ink & Peat before heading to dinner. This is where I bought that Donna Wilson tumbler but I would have gladly taken home a bundle of sweet peas if I knew they'd survive another 3 days.
We stopped in at Chop for a little pre-dinner snack, cuz we are on vacation after all, and they had some delicious Teriyaki Jerky among other tasty things.
After a 40 minute wait, we were finally sat for dinner at Tasty N Sons. Everything we had was perfect and since we were there during Happy Hour, the menu was small and inexpensive. We still left feeling completely stuffed.
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Successes in Closing Achievement Gaps
Reports, Briefs, and Resources
Study Backs Benefits of Oklahoma's Preschool Program
"The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development" (Developmental Psychology, November 2005) cites research confirming that Oklahoma's pre-kindergarten program has successfully helped kids prepare for school. (Oklahoma is one of the few states to offer preschool to every four-year-old child.) While learning gains were made by children of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, the study found the most significant improvements among Hispanic children. Researchers noted that the preschool program was staffed by well-educated, well-trained teachers who earn regular public school salaries.
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Report Offers a State-by-State Snapshot of Education Statistics
"Education: The State We're In" (Center for American Progress, August 2005) provides a comprehensive snapshot of education today in America. It brings together publicly available data, slicing the numbers in different ways. The report includes data on seven of the most pressing issue areas in education: the achievement gap, early childhood education, the high-school-to-college pipeline, the accessibility of higher education, participation in after-school programs, standards and student performance measurements, and teachers' subject-matter qualifications. You can take an in-depth look at a particular state or see how the states compare on a particular topic.
Education: The State We're In
Reaching Out to Diverse Families
"What Can Schools Do to Foster Family-School Connections?" (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, September 2005) asks how can schools move beyond a limited level of family involvement and encourage all families to become more active in their children's schools and education. A new strategy brief from the discusses strategies to help schools that want to broaden family involvement.
What Can Schools Do to Foster Family-School Connections? (Strategy brief) (PDF, 12pp)
Characteristics of Minority Students Who Excel
"Characteristics of Minority Students Who Excel on the SAT and in the Classroom" (Educational Testing Service, January 2005) examines the characteristics of high-achieving minority students in terms of high school courses taken, participation in school activities, leadership experiences, academic success, and parental education.
Characteristics of Minority Students Who Excel on the SAT and in the Classroom (PDF, 27pp)
National Board Certification Linked to Higher Student Achievement
"Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed?" (Urban Institute, March 2004) shows that students of National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) improved on elementary math and reading tests more than pupils whose teachers did not achieve National Board Certification. The effects of NBCTs on students who were younger or low-income were even greater.
Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed?
Many Factors Must Be Addressed To Close Achievement Gaps
Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress (Educational Testing Service, October 2003) offers an overview and big-picture synthesis of existing research on the achievement gap. The report lists 14 factors related to student achievement -- including six school and eight out-of-school factors. This report also argues against setting costly and punitive deadlines based on revising progress standards and testing more frequently in school, such as with the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress (PDF, 42pp)
"How Schools Matter: The Link Between Teacher Classroom Practices and Student Academic Performance" (Educational Testing Service, 2002) shows that teacher quality and classroom practice can have an effect on student achievement that is equal to or greater than that of students' socioeconomic status and other background characteristics. Among the top factors affecting student performance are a teacher's major course of study in college, diversity training, and the use of hands-on learning in the classroom.
"How Schools Matter: The Link Between Teacher Classroom Practices and Student Academic Performance"
Gaps Should Be Addressed at Multiple Levels, in Multiple Ways
"Perspectives on the Gaps: Fostering the Academic Success of Minority and Low-Income Students" (North Cental Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004) spotlights four entirely different approaches to reducing the achievement gaps. This research report reviews a study comparing gap-closing elementary schools to other schools that are not closing the gaps, a study of a literacy program in high school, a study of a support program in higher education, and a look at gap issues in a rural school district.
Each study takes a different perspective to addressing acheivement gaps and each adds to our understanding of the the causes and solutions. The underlying theme here is that our approaches to eliminating the gaps must occur at multiple levels and account for particular contextual factors. Since there appear to be many causes to the gaps, multiple solutions at multiple levels most likely are required.
Perspectives on the Gaps: Fostering the Academic Success of Minority and Low-Income Students
Achievement Gaps Show Up Early
An Uneven Start: Indicators of Inequality in School Readiness (Educational Testing Service, 2002) found that children start kindergarten with different levels of reading and mathematics skills that are often related to gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic level, and age.
An Uneven Start: Indicators of Inequality in School Readiness (PDF, 77pp)
Web Site Stresses Link Between Class Size and Achievement
Reduce Class Size Now, headed by retired public school teachers and former NEA presidents Helen Pate-Bain and Helen Wise, examines the relationship between smaller classes and student achievement.
Reduce Class Size Now (Web site)
FairTest Web Site Offers Resources on Testing
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to make certain that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound. The Web site includes a wide range of resources on K-12 and university testing for teachers, administrators, students, parents, and researchers.
FairTest (Web site)
International Comparisons of Math, Science Achievement
The Trends in International Math and Science Study (TIMSS), formerly known as the Third International Math and Science Study, is the most rigorous and comprehensive study of math and science teaching and learning in the United States and approximately 70 other countries. The TIMSS Web site features highlights and trends from the latest study, including rankings by country of students' math and science achievement.
TIMSS (Web site)
What Makes a Good School?
"What Makes a Good School: A Guide for Parents Seeking Excellence in Education" (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing, Undated) uses sound research findings to identify the qualities of a successful school. Good schools, the authors say, have strong and professional administrators and teachers; a broad curriculum available to all students; a philosophy that says all children can learn, coupled with high expectations for all students; a school climate conducive to learning; an ongoing assessment system that supports good instruction; and a high level of parent and community involvement and support.
What Makes a Good School: A Guide for Parents Seeking Excellence in Education (PDF, 11pp)
Setting High Expectations Important for States Too
The Expectations Gap: A 50-State Review of High School Graduation Requirements (Achieve, Inc., 2004) provides one explanation for why so few of the nation's high school students gain the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in college and the workforce: "No state requires its graduates to take the courses that reflect the real-world demands of work and postsecondary education." The report is from Achieve, Inc., a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability.
The Expectations Gap: A 50-State Review of High School Graduation Requirements (PDF, 27pp)
Some Racial and Ethnic Groups Are Overrepresented in Special Ed
When students from some racial and ethnic groups aren't achieving, they're more likely to be placed in special education classrooms.
"Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem" (National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems, 2004) looks at the challenges in determining why this happens and how to reduce inappropriate referrals to special education.
Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem (PDF, 12pp)
Study Finds Recess and Play Important in Early Grades
"The Role of Recess in Children's Cognitive Performance and School Adjustment" (Educational Researcher, January 2005) concludes that recess is important in the primary school curriculum. Researchers found that unstructured breaks from demanding cognitive tasks seem to facilitate school learning, as well as more general social competence and adjustment to school. The bottom line? Recess and play are an important part of learning and education -- and may ultimately enhance student achievement.
The Role of Recess in Children's Cognitive Performance and School Adjustment (PDF, 7pp)
NEA Partners on Student Achievement
- National Alliance of Black School Educators
A large network of Black educators with the primary mission to improve the educational accomplishments of Black youth by developing and using instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance, and overall achievement.
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. The group works for the political, educational, social, and economic equality of African Americans and other minority groups.
ASPIRA programs develop the intellectual and leadership potential of Hispanic youth so they can do well in school, improve their lives, and give back to their communities.
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
LULAC works to improve the economic, political, and health conditions of Hispanics. LULAC monitors legislation and provides policymakers with the Hispanic perspective on relevant social issues.


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The Mott Haven neighborhood is named for Jordan L. Mott, who ran an industrial complex, west of Third Avenue. Mott showed early promise as an inventor; at the age of fifteen, he invented a tape weaving machine. He received more than fifty patents, the most important of which was a patent for an anthracite coal burning stove. Mott's Iron Works cast many of the manhole covers used throughout the Bronx, as well as the wrought-iron bridges in Central Park. Products of Mott's foundry can be found around the world, from California to Turkey and from Japan to South America.


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To anyone who is good at making stuff with their hands: please make me this DeLorean center console clock from Back to the Future for me. There are instructions from Adafruit and links to all the stock parts you need to pull it off.
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- Adafruit can't sell them because of trademark issues
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Seriously, consider it would ya? The BTTF clock was made by Adafruit as a proof-of-concept type deal and it's so very beautiful. Adafruit has provided the Internet with detailed instructions on how to build your own, so make sure you follow them when building the clock for me. Thanks guys, you're the best! [Adafruit Industries via Laughing Squid]


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This seminar-style course is about privacy --what it means to the courts, to the legislature, to the public, or whether it really means anything at all. Through a variety of source materials, including case
law, legislation, essays, and literature, the course examines constitutional and common law approaches to privacy issues in many contexts -- our persons,
our homes, our workplaces, our schools, our computers and cyberspace. It also includes cultural and comparative law dimensions of privacy. The
instructors make a concerted effort to weave current events and "hot topics" in privacy into the syllabus and class discussions. Students are graded primarily on a final research paper, oral presentation of the paper
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The ancient Greek city of Priene represents the best-preserved Hellenistic townscape in Ionia, without any of the usual Roman or Byzantine additions. It also occupies perhaps the finest location of any such city. Perched on a series of pine terraces graded into the south flank of Samsun Dağı, this compact but exquisite site enjoys a situation to bear comparison with that of Delphi in Greece. Despite all this, and the fact that it's just 35km south of Kuşadası, Priene remains far less visited than Ephesus – even in summer, you'll largely have this wonderful place to yourself.
Visitors to Priene who are dropped by dolmuş at the western edge of the strung-out village of Güllübahçe face an uphill walk to the site ticket office, and then another good steep walk up the hill to the northeast gate into the city itself. Beyond that, the ruins are strewn over a wide area, and all major points of interest have English-language information boards.
The town was set up along a grid pattern made up of various insulae (rectangular units), each measuring roughly 42m by 35m. Within each rectangle stood four private dwellings; a public building had its own insula, sometimes two.
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The original settlement of Priene lay elsewhere in the Meander basin. Following the receding shoreline, however – now just visible to the west – its inhabitants re-founded the city on its present site during the fourth century BC, just in time for Alexander to stop in and finance the cost of the principal temple of Athena. However, the city enjoyed little patronage from Roman or Byzantine emperors – which, of course, adds to its modern-day appeal.
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Then the young king falls deathly ill. Determined to keep England under Protestant rule, he concocts an audacious scheme that subverts his own father's will. Suddenly, Jane Dudley and Frances Grey are reluctantly bound together in a common cause—one that will test their loyalties, their strength, and their faith, and that will change their lives beyond measure.
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Afro-Asian Conference of Transitional Research in oncology (ACTRO) will focus on personalized cancer care
Bangalore: The Afro-Asian Conference of Transitional Research in oncology (ACTRO) kicked-started in Bangalore today. The three-day conference will bring together oncologists from Asia and Africa, to discuss the need for personalized cancer care and a repository of cancer-based research in the country.
The conference began with research topics, focused on personalized medicine, organ and functional preservation in breast cancer, hematology and stem cell transplant and cardio-thoracic oncology. With Bangalore having the highest incidence of cancer cases (113.4 males and 139.1 females for every 1,00,000 males and females) among the key cities in India, there has been an urgent call to action to debate existing cancer care, treatments and research-based medicine which ACTRO aims to address.
At ACTRO, Dr B S Ajaikumar, president, Association for Transitional Research in Oncology (ATRO) said, "India as a country has immense potential to be one of the leaders in oncology research with its burgeoning cancer population and comprehensive cancer care centers. The theme of the conference is 'From Bedside to Benchmark' with a focus on superior cancer care for patients through futuristic technology to improve the quality of life."
"Due to dearth of research in India, we have been depending on the western population data to manage the problem. ACTRO 2013 will act as a platform for Oncologists to analyze our own cancer care treatment outcomes, through efficient documentation and data management," he added.